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sidechannels

Experimental writing at the edge of security research. Tracing assumptions, questioning what isn't mainstream.

Security

Exploit primitives, memory corruption, and kernel internals.

Interpretability

Mechanistic theory and circuit analysis of LLMs.

Verification

Formal methods and safety invariants in distributed systems.

2024
RCA

Root Cause Analysis: CVE-2024-XXXXX (Kernel GFX UAF)

A detailed investigation into a race condition discovered in the Linux kernel graphics driver disposal logic, examining the transition from reference counting to memory reclamation.

#kernel#exploit#memory-safety#linux CVE-2024-XXXXX
ESSAY

Attention Mechanisms as Computational Circuits

A mechanistic theory of multi-head attention in transformer architectures, proposing that individual heads act as discrete gates in a larger computational circuit.

#machine-learning#interpretability#theory